fasting
noun
1 fasting
Abstaining from food.
synonym: fast.
Roget 990:
worship,
adoration,
devotion,
aspiration,
homage,
service,
humiliation;
kneeling,
genuflection,
prostration.
prayer,
invocation,
supplication,
rogation,
intercession,
orison,
holy breathing;
petition
etc.
(request)
765;
collect,
litany,
Lord's prayer,
paternoster [Lat.];
beadroll†;
latria†,
dulia†,
hyperdulia†,
vigils;
revival;
cult;
anxious meeting,
camp meeting;
ebenezer,
virginal.
thanksgiving;
giving thanks,
returning thanks;
grace,
praise,
glorification,
benediction,
doxology,
hosanna;
hallelujah,
allelujah†;
Te Deum [Lat.],
non nobis Domine [Lat.],
nunc dimittis [Lat.];
paean;
benschen [G.];
Ave Maria,
O Salutaris,
Sanctus [Lat.],
The Annunciation,
Tersanctus,
Trisagion.
psalm,
psalmody;
hymn,
plain song,
chant,
chaunt,
response,
anthem,
motet;
antiphon†,
antiphony.
oblation,
sacrifice,
incense,
libation;
burnt offering,
heave offering,
votive offering;
offertory.
discipline;
self-discipline,
self-examination,
self-denial;
fasting.
divine service,
office,
duty;
exercises;
morning prayer;
mass,
matins,
evensong,
vespers;
undernsong†,
tierce†;
holyday
etc.
(rites)
998.
worshipper,
congregation,
communicant,
celebrant.
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Roget 952:
atonement,
reparation;
compromise,
composition;
compensation
etc.
30;
quittance,
quits;
expiation,
redemption,
reclamation,
conciliation,
propitiation;
indemnification,
redress.
amends,
apology,
amende honorable†,
satisfaction;
peace offering,
sin offering,
burnt offering;
scapegoat,
sacrifice.
penance,
fasting,
maceration,
sackcloth and ashes,
white sheet,
shrift,
flagellation,
lustration†;
purgation,
purgatory.
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Roget 955:
asceticism,
puritanism,
sabbatarianism†;
cynicism†,
austerity;
total abstinence;
nephalism†.
mortification,
maceration,
sackcloth and ashes,
flagellation;
penance
etc.
952;
fasting
etc.
956;
martyrdom.
ascetic;
anchoret†,
anchorite;
martyr;
Heautontimorumenos†;
hermit
etc.
(recluse)
893;
puritan,
sabbatarian†,
cynic,
sanyasi†,
yogi.
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Roget 956:
fasting;
xerophagy†;
famishment,
starvation.
fast,
jour maigre [Fr.];
fast day,
banyan day;
Lent,
quadragesima†;
Ramadan,
Ramazan;
spare diet,
meager diet;
lenten diet,
lenten entertainment;
soupe maigre [Fr.],
short commons,
Barmecide feast†;
short rations.
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Dutch: vasten, vastentijd
Polish: post
adjective
Roget 956:
lenten,
quadragesimal†;
unfed†;
starved
etc.
v.;
half-starved;
fasting
etc.
v.;
hungry
etc.
865.
Moby thesaurus: Albigensianism, Catharism, Day of Atonement, Franciscanism, Lenten, Sabbatarianism, Trappism, Waldensianism, Yoga, Yom Kippur, abstinence, anchoritic monasticism, anchoritism, asceticism, austerity, cold purgatorial fires, dog-hungry, empty, eremitism, famished, famishing, flagellation, hair shirt, half-famished, half-starved, hungering, hungry, lustration, maceration, mendicantism, monachism, monasticism, mortification, peckish, penance, penitence, penitential act, penitential exercise, pinched with hunger, purgation, purgatory, puritanism, quadragesimal, ravening, ravenous, repentance, rigor, sackcloth and ashes, self-denial, self-mortification, sharp-set, starved, starving, uneating, unfed, unfilled, voluntary poverty, voracious, wolfish ... show more.
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